[SEL] Help Needed

[Judge Tommy Turner]

Oh yes Mike, there is much proof.  You've listened to those folks at the 
Bostic Center too much who say Lincoln must have been the illigetimate 
son of Enloe because he "looked like" Enloe.  If that's the way we 
detemine who his father was, then old Abe must be the dad of some of the 
Lincoln look alikes that certainly favor him!  In Lincoln's own 
handwriting he wrote "I was born Feb. 12, 1809 in Hardin, now the county 
of LaRue, Kentucky on the Sinking Spring.  My first recollection is of 
the Knob Creek place" (which is also in LaRue County).  The Lincoln 
Family Bible, which I've held in my hands and is on display here in 
LaRue County, has the entry "born of Thomas and Nancy, Feb. 12, 1809, 
Abraham".  Also, Nancy's cousin, Dennis, wrote while Lincoln was running 
for political office that he remembered the day Abe was born.  Thomas 
ran to him and exclaimed that Nancy had just had a baby boy.  Dennis 
lived about a mile from the Sinking Spring Farm.  The Bostic Center 
folks claim that Abe was Enloe's illigetimate son and there was no proof 
that Nancy and Thomas had even married yet when Abe was born.  However, 
the marriage license of Thomas and Nancy, dated June 1806, is on file at 
the Washington County Courthouse here in Kentucky.  Also, there are 
ledger entries from the Haycraft store in Elizabethtown, KY showing 
Thomas and Nancy buying goods there prior to their purchase of the 
Sinking Spring farm and moving to it.  Much, much proof pointing to 
where Lincoln was born, and it wasn't NC.  Hey, I've researched this 
stuff as much as I have the old iron!

Tommy Turner



Mike Royster wrote:

>Not to argue, but there is no proof Lincoln was born in KY, and if you see a 
>picture of Abraham Enloe, there is no question who his father was.  Let's 
>just say KY is most associated with Lincoln.
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>MR
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>From: "Judge Tommy Turner" <lcjudge at scrtc.com>
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>Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 1:02 PM
>Subject: [SEL] Help Needed
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>>OK Everybody, I need your help.  Please go to the link below and vote
>>for KY.  I chair a Commission here in KY in regards to the Lincoln
>>Bicentennial and also serve on the US Commission.  Lincoln was born here
>>so we should win!  Thanks and sorry this isn't "totally" engine
>>related.  I say that because Lincoln was the only President to hold a
>>patent.  It was in regards to trains so in a sense, he liked old iron too!
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>>Tommy Turner
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>>Please click the link below and vote for Kentucky as the state that
>>"should be most closely associated with Abraham Lincoln."
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>>http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/apr/14/lincoln-bicentennial-events-set-to-begin-may-10/
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